Press Release

Direct-To-Consumer Marketing Company SPIO Announces Addition of Five Star Food Service, Inc. To Its Network

01/17/2008

SPIO, a direct-to-consumer marketing company which uses automatic vending to distribute promotional offers or marketing messages to targeted audiences, announced that Five Star Food Service Inc., based in Dalton, Ga., has joined the SPIO network. SPIO prides itself on partnering with the most respected vend operators in the business and is pleased to have Five Star join the network.

Five Star Food Service has been in operation for 15 years with annual sales of $140 million. It operates 20,000 machines in Georgia, Tennessee, Alabama, South Carolina, North Carolina and Virginia. Five Star employs 1,300 people and has 350 routes. SPIO looks forward to a long relationship with Five Star and will begin distributing promotional offers and marketing messages via Five Star vending machines at locations in the metro-Atlanta area later this month.

Chuck Treister, executive vice president of Vend Partner Solutions for SPIO, said in a prepared statement, "We are enthused that Five Star has joined our network. Five Star brings one of the most progressive and well respected vend operators in the country to the SPIO team. We are proud to have them as part of our portfolio."

For additional information on joining the SPIO network or more information on Five Star, please contact info@gospio.net or visit us on the Web at www.gospio.net